Install Office Web App Server 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2

Let me give you a brief about what Office Web App Server is for those who don’t know what it is used for. Its basically a server which provides the Office Services to edit or view the office documents in the browser itself without the need of office installed on local machine of end users.

Installing OWA Server on Windows Server is not a pain until its Windows Server 2012 R2. Normally one would think like SharePoint it would give the list of pre-requisites which would be installed automatically but it doesn’t do that.

Change Password for SharePoint Managed Account in PowerShell

Change password of a Managed Account in SharePoint

You might found a lot of scripts for doing the same task in SharePoint 2010 Managed Shell. But I would add on to the problem I faced in changing the password after listing the command for the same.

Following is the algorithm to change the password:

1. Get the appropriate managed account.
2. Get the password and change the password to secure string.
3. Set the password.